'A better solution'

Instead of SCHIP, we need a comprehensive "brain cell rehab program" for Congress. Talk about a"vote-buying giveaway of taxpayers' money! Is there no fiscal common sense in Washington anymore? A "child" is now 25 years old?

Families making annual incomes of $82,000 can certainly afford their own health insurance.

A better solution would be sterilization for people who can't or won't afford health care for their offspring (think "out-of-wedlock" children).

Send the bill for illegals' health care to Mexico. (Where is the study on what this costs California/the nation, annually?)